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      Steve Bannon and the Conservative “Cafeteria Catholics”
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      Trump’s DOJ Wants Constitutional Protection for Wedding Cakes, Not LGBT People
  • (A)theologies
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      Shocked by Aung San Suu Kyi’s Insensitivity to Ethnic Cleaning? Don’t Be.
    • Reclaiming My Time: Maxine Waters, the Sabbath and the High Holy Days
      Reclaiming My Time: Maxine Waters, the Sabbath and the High Holy Days
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      Status Updates at the End of the World: The Religious Imagination and Our Latest Apocalypse
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      East Lansing Demonstrates How Not to Respond to Anti-LGBT “Christian” Businesses
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      Australian Church Nixes Straight Couple’s Wedding Over Their Marriage Equality Support; and More in Global LGBT Recap
  • New Books
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      You Are Being Organized by Something: 10 Questions for Kathryn Lofton on Consuming Religion
    • You’ve Been Warned: Reading Philip Roth’s <em>The Plot Against America</em> in the Trump Era
      You’ve Been Warned: Reading Philip Roth’s The Plot Against America in the Trump Era
    • More Than Big Hair and Money: Jim, Tammy Faye and the Media “Holy Wars” of the 80s
      More Than Big Hair and Money: Jim, Tammy Faye and the Media “Holy Wars” of the 80s

Andrew Aghapour

Andrew Aghapour is a PhD Student at UNC Chapel Hill and co-producer of The Cubit.

(A)theologies, Front Page, New Books, The CubitAugust 9, 2016

The Case for Treating Near-Death Experiences Like Acid Trips

By Andrew Aghapour

Heavenly jaunts aren’t the only kind of near-death experience.

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(A)theologies, Andrew Aghapour, Front Page, Politics/Law, Religious Liberty, Science, The CubitMay 5, 2016

How Not to Oppose the National Day of Prayer

By Andrew Aghapour

Today is the National Day of Prayer in the United States, an annual day of…

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(A)theologies, Andrew Aghapour, New Books, Science, The CubitMarch 7, 2016

What If Animals Believe in God?

By Andrew Aghapour

Chimpanzees believe in God. This news, widely reported last week, is only a slight exaggeration….

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(A)theologies, Andrew Aghapour, Front Page, New Books, Science, The CubitJanuary 29, 2016

Are All Religious Experiences Reducible to 16 Desires?

By Andrew Aghapour

For quite some time now, there’s been an irritating trend in the social sciences. In every generation, someone new…

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Front Page, Science, The CubitJanuary 6, 2016

Oprah, Terrorist Cells, and the Meaning of Life: An Interview with Paul Froese

By Andrew Aghapour

I have a theory: New Year’s resolutions have nothing to do with the turn of…

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(A)theologies, Andrew Aghapour, Front Page, Science, Stories, The CubitDecember 30, 2015

Gluten-Phobia, Sacred Volcanoes, Undercover Atheists: The Best Religion and Science Writing of 2015

By Andrew Aghapour

This year saw the launch of the Cubit: RD’s answer to the mainstream media’s coverage…

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Has Science Proven that Deepak Chopra is Bullshit?
Blog Sidebar, Science, The CubitDecember 11, 2015

Has Science Proven that Deepak Chopra is Bullshit?

By Andrew Aghapour

An illustrated guide.

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Front Page, Science, The CubitNovember 9, 2015

Citizen Speech in an Age of Data: Or, Why I’m Transcribing My Tweets Into Cuneiform

By Andrew Aghapour

Social media has made possible a new global distribution of cognitive ephemera. We are tweeting 6,000…

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(A)theologies, Andrew Aghapour, Beyond Belief: Election 2016, Front Page, Politics/Law, Science, Sexuality/Gender, Stories, The CubitOctober 21, 2015

“We Blew it” on Climate Change, But May Survive Anyway: An RD Discussion with the First Transhumanist Candidate

By Andrew Aghapour

Presidential candidates currently fall into two camps. In the first, you have about 20 Republican…

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Andrew Aghapour, Blog Sidebar, Culture, New Books, RD Blog, Science, The CubitOctober 7, 2015

If You Liked The Martian You’ll Love These 3 Sci-Fi Shorts

By Andrew Aghapour

Ridley Scott’s The Martian just had a massive $55 million opening weekend. Matt Damon stars…

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